But in this context I'm just going to read an abridged version of those texts.

今天时间有限，我只能读缩的版本。

A work that has been abridged is called an abridgment.

被删减的作品称为删节本。

Well, I hope she did an abridged version.

嗯，我希望她做了个缩减版。

First, of all useful machines and instruments of trade, which facilitate and abridge labour.

首先，所有有用的机器和贸易工具中，它们促进和减少了劳动。

I'm doing a bit of an abridged intro now just because, you know, they know who we are.

我现地介绍一下，因为你们知道我们是谁。

Abridged and simplified from Aurora's argument in the fifth book, that theory runs something like this.

该理论是根据奥罗拉第五本书中的论点进行删节和化的。

I usually listen to one in the car (always unabridged; I think abridged audio-books are the pits), and carry another wherever I go.

我幵车的时候通常会听一本有声书(我总是听未删节的版本；我认为删节版的有声书太糟糕了），走到哪里随身还会带上一本。

The relevant clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution reads, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.

宪法第一修正案的相关条款规：“国会不得法律… … 剥夺言论自由。”

And no state has a right to make any new law or enforce any old law that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

并且没有何州有权何新法律或执行何旧法律来侵犯他们的特权或豁免权。

The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour.

匈牙利的矿山是由自由人建造的， 他们使用大量机器， 他们利用这些机器来促进和减少他们自己的劳动。

It also says that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.

它还规何州不得或执行何限美国公民权利或豁免权的法律。

He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge.

他写作是因为他喜欢写作;他没有删节，因为他不乎删节。

So, all of that is, very simplistically, too broadly, and probably too quickly and abridged version of how we all got to where we are right now.

因此， 而言之，过于笼统， 或许也过于仓促且地概括了我们如何走到今天这一步。

Well, the 15th Amendment of 1870 said that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

1870 年第 15 条修正案规，投票权不得因种族、肤色或先前的奴役状况而被剥夺或剥夺。

I shall only observe, therefore, that the invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged, seems to have been originally owing to the division of labour.

因此，我只会指出， 所有那些大大化和化了劳动的机器的发明， 似乎最初都是由于劳动分工所致。

Slaves, however, are very seldom inventive; and all the most important improvements, either in machinery, or in the arrangement and distribution of work, which facilitate and abridge labour have been the discoveries of freemen.

然而，奴隶很少有创造力；所有最重要的改进，无论是机器方面，还是工作的安排和分配方面，都是自由人的发现，这些改进促进和减少了劳动。

As early computer pioneer Charles Babbage said: " At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged" . However, none of these devices were called " computers" .

早期计算机先驱Charles Babbage曾说： " 每当人类知识增长创造新工具时 人工劳动力会得到衰减" 然而，这些设备那时都不叫" 计算机" 。

An improved farm may very justly be regarded in the same light as those useful machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and by means of which an equal circulating capital can afford a much greater revenue to its employer.

一个改进的农场可以非常公正地被视为与那些促进和减少劳动的有用机器相同的观点，并且通过这些机器，相等的流动资本可以为其雇主提供更多的收入。

The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labour, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a profit.

工人灵巧性的提高可以从促进和减少劳动的机器或贸易工具的角度来考虑，虽然它会花费一的费用，但可以用利润来偿还这笔费用。

The First Amendment states that" Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, " but all constitutional lawyers agree that this constitutional prohibition applies to the president and the courts as well, even though this isn't specifically stated.

第一修正案规，“国会不得何法律......剥夺言论自由，“但所有宪法律师都同意，这项宪法禁令也适用于总统和法院，尽管没有具体说明。